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| 1st place, David Strider fishing with Ken Troutman |
For the Bear Creek Bass Club, the season is heating up. Although the Saturday, June 19th competition on Tillery was staged in ninety-plus degree temperatures, the weather paled in comparison to the points battle going on within the group. When the points leaders stumbled and managed only a tenth place finish, Ken Troutman and David Strider used a red-hot Tillery to grab the day’s competition and wrestle the points lead away from Lewis Gordon and Randy Burleson. “We caught fish all day long,” stated Troutman at weigh in. “Most of the fish came on jigs.” The partners claimed a pile of points with their win and now sit on top with 303.40. On Tillery they scored five fish weighing 15.50 pounds to win the $200 first place pot. In total this season they have boated thirty-five fish weighing 87.40 pounds. Points are given based on tournament placement and participation and meetings attended. Gordon and Burleson found only 9.20 pounds to end the day in tenth, losing nine club points to Troutman and Strider.
Twenty-five of the club’s boat teams joined in the battle in waters ranging from 85 to 0 degrees. Eleven of the teams found limits for a total of 87 fish caught. In all 172.9 pounds were brought to the scales. Water temp ranged between 85 & 90. All 25 teams fished the event.
In second place, Max Davis caught 5 weighing 12.58 pounds and found Big Fish of the event, a 5.94 solo. They earned $150 for first and $140 for the big catch. Bobby Crowley and Steve Crowley finished on third with 5 weighing 11.72 pounds and earned $100. Fourth went to Barry Davis and Kenny Hill with 11.46 pounds, good for $50. Austin Culler and Cody Stegall managed a fifth place showing with 10.62. Matthew Woods and Wayne Bost caught Second Big Fish of the event, a 4.86 pounder worth $90.
The club will move on to High Rock on July 17. Five events remain in their schedule, including a two-day tournament on Wateree and the Club’s Fish Off in November. Details are also available on the Fishbyte.Net pages.
Kenny Davis and DC Howard Use Six-Plus Pounder To Win on Badin
May 22, 2010
Story Info by Fshbyte.net Staff
Photos Courtesy of Ken Troutman
The Bear Creek Bass Club proved its bassing skills on Badin this past Saturday when twenty five teams scored a 2.19 pound average per fish in the eight-hour event. On top of that list were an angling team who improved their overall standing to twentieth in the club points race. D.C. Howard and Kenny Davis used overcast skies and muggy atmosphere to haul a 2.8 pound average catch to the scales.
According to Davis, the team had their limit by 9:30 AM. They used a Badin “full pond” and a shaky head to catch their biggest solo, while most of the rest were caught on buzzbaits.
The Bear Creek Bass Club holds eleven events during the season. Two of those are two-day competitions. Their season ends in November. Annual dues are just $40 and monthly meetings are held. Ryan Mullis serves as president.
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| Kenny Davis & DC Howard, 1st place & Big Fish, 6.02 |
Davis and Howard brought their five-fish limit in and anchored the winning bag with a 6.02 pounder for first. Their total weight was 14.02 pounds. They earned $200 for first and another $140 for the Big Fish.
Top in the point standings, Lewis Gordon and Randy Burleson lost no ground on other teams with a second place showing. Their 12.68 pounds was worth $150 and widened the gap in the standings. They now hold a commanding 15 point lead over
David Strider and Ken Troutman. That team finished third at Badin Saturday, just a third of a pound behind Gordon and Burleson’s bag. The third place bag of 12.30 pounds was worth $100.
Just two weeks prior at Tuckertown, David McEachern and Mike Culler had finished second. At Badin they finished a close fourth with 12.16 pounds for $50. They now sit in sixth place in the club points race. Chris Toole and Wesley Eudy finished just outside the paying positions in fifth with 11.92 pounds and are in fourth place overall. Rick Poplin and Scott Mason are third in the points battle after finishing fourteenth Saturday.
Thirteen of the boat teams brought in limits of five and 219.62 total pounds were caught. The Bear Creek Bass Club moves on to Lake Tillery Saturday, June 19 for their sixth of eleven events in the 2010 season schedule.
Wayne Bost and Matthew Woods win on Tuckertown
April 17 & 18, 2010
By Fishbyte.Net Staff
May 8, 2010 A pile of boats landed on Tuckertown this past Saturday and the Bear Creek Bass Club was half of them. Twenty-four teams turned out for the fourth event in their schedule, three weeks after a two-day event on Wateree. Most made the adjustment quickly as the club usually fares well on the narrows and stumps of Tuckertown.
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| 2nd place, Mike Culler & David McEachern |
A total of 92 fish were caught with thirteen of the boats bringing in the limit of five fish. The total weight of 240.2 pounds was a 2.61 pound per fish average. On such a windy day, that takes some doing.
Matt Woods and Wayne Bost have it best figured out. The teammates brought 19.50 pounds in while grabbing Second Big Fish with a 5.46 pound solo. “We used jigs and worms most of the day on these,” stated Woods after weigh in. They now reside firmly in ninth place overall in the club points battle.
David McEachern and Mike Culler took second with 17.98 pounds, almost a pound more than third placers David Strider and Ken Troutman who boated 16.50. The spot inched McEachern and Culler into seventh place overall and just a few points closer to the fourth place in points, Strider and Troutman.
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| 1st place & 2nd Big Fish, Matt Woods fishing with Wayne Bost |
Fourth place finishers, Rick Poplin and Scott Mason drew 15.20 pounds out of the lake. That finish was enough to keep them in the lead in club points, where they hold a slim 10 point lead over Barry Davis and Kenny Hill. Eddie Conner and president, Ryan Mullis, finished fifth with 15.04, while Chris Toole and Wesley Eudy followed in sixth with 14.96. Bobby and Steve Crowley had First Big Fish, a 6.24 pound solo as a highlight to a 14.50 pound bag.
The club has made an adjustment in its schedule and will move next to Badin Lake and the Alcoa Landing on May 22 from 6 AM to 2 PM. They will substitute High Rock in for the July 17 date.